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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: day," he had told Captain Abernethy.
It was in the same large and simple spirit that a Russian Czar
once laid a ruler across the map of his empire and, drawing a
straight line from Moscow to Petersburg, commanded his engineers:
"Build me a railroad to run like that." Genius has winged
conceptions; it sees things as a completed whole from the first;
it is only mediocrity which permits itself to be lost in details.
Cleggett was like the Romanoffs in his ability to go straight to
the point, but he had none of the Romanoff cruelty.
Captain Abernethy had made his arrangements accordingly. If it
pleased Cleggett to have a small manufacturing plant brought to
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